Regarding the ten U.S. Navy sailors that were detained by Iran and released, there is something that no one is talking about. “The boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain at the time.” What in the world were American sailors doing in Kuwait in the first place? U.S. military personnel have no business there or anywhere else outside of the United States.
A reader makes another point that I should have:
Not to belabor the point, but what if Iran had two boats headed to Havana from Nassau, Bahamas, and these two boats “drifted” into waters off the Key West Naval Base due to an equipment malfunction? What would Washington do about it? And how would the blood-lusting Americans react? I can think of a few possibilities:
- Americans would say Iran has no business in “American” waters, Cuba, or the Bahamas.
- Americans would say Iran has no right to be in the Western hemisphere.
- The US military would take the Iranian sailors into custody and keep their boats.
- Americans would demand the sailors be sent to Guantanamo.
- Americans would demand that “the Iran deal” be revoked.
- Americans would say Iran violated international law.
- No one would believe the “equipment malfunction” story.
